Weather as medium : toward a meteorological art / Janine Randerson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Randerson, Janine, author.

Series:

Leonardo book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and meteorology.

Weather in art.

Art and science.

Art, Modern--21st century--Themes, motives.

Art, Modern.

Themes, motives.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xl, 233 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some colour).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In a time of climate crisis, a growing number of artists use weather or atmosphere as an artistic medium, collaborating with scientists, local communities, and climate activists. Their work mediates scientific modes of knowing and experiential knowledge of weather, probing collective anxieties and raising urgent ecological questions, oscillating between the "big picture systems view" and a ground-based perspective. In this book, Janine Randerson explores a series of meteorological art projects from the 1960s to the present that draw on sources ranging from dynamic, technological, and physical systems to indigenous cosmology.

Contents:

1 Live Weather, Systems, and Science p. 1

2 Sensing the Weather p. 25

3 Weather Envisioning: Visualization and Mapping p. 43

4 Meteorological Art Instruments p. 67

5 Social Meteorology and Participatory Art p. 89

6 Climate Dialogues: Acts into Nature p. 115

7 Weather Materialized: Ice as Medium p. 137

8 Speculative Weathers: Cosmic Clouds and Solar Winds p. 157.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262353441

026235344X

OCLC:

1056624835

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.